Eric Forste

DateTime's built-in methods disregarding timezone

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DateTime's julian-date method seems to be ignoring timezones in Rakudo v2024.07, MoarVM 2024.07, Raku v6.d. For example, the following produces 23 identical lines of output. for -11..11 {DateTime.new("2025-05-19T17:00:00"~"%+03d".sprintf($_)).julian-date.say}

Not Documented: DateTime's two julian-date methods silently discard timezone data

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## Problem or new feature The documentation for DateTime's [julian-date](https://docs.raku.org/type/DateTime#method_julian-date) and [modified-julian-date](https://docs.raku.org/type/DateTime#method_modified-julian-date) methods do not warn that both these methods silently ignore timezone information. ## Suggestions I propose the following...

https://docs.raku.org/type/Dateish#method_mm-dd-yyyy repeats the parenthetical link to (the wikipedia article on ) ISO8601 that appears in the doc for method yyyy-mm-dd Same is true of the doc for Dateish.dd-mm-yyyy. These two...

## The problem The docs for loop-control keywords `next` and `last` etc were listed at the very end of Language/control.rakudoc, separated from the main discussion of loop-control syntax by the...

xt/rakudoc-types.rakutest is failing when "Regex" is linked to the /language/regexes and trying to force an inappropriate (for that context) change to /type/Regex, e. g. in doc/Language/variables.rakudoc ## Suggestions @coke suggested...

confusion about class Instant's epoch

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## Problem In https://docs.raku.org/type/Instant the statement "It is not tied to or aware of any epoch." is an unnecessarily mysterious way of saying that the epoch of Instant is implementation-dependent....

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Improvements: - [ ] Make DateTime.(modified-)julian-date take timezone into account (#5886) [5a1f7013] - [ ] Elaborate a bit on possible error reason [133f44c8] - [ ] Change enum's raku method...

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What makes `unit` be too late?

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* The docs state (and have stated for many years) that a `unit` declaration at the beginning of a file may be preceded only by comments and `use` statements. *...